Hussein Dey is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques d ...

Province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...

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. It was named after the Ottoman provincial ruler of the

Regency of Algiers The Regency of Algiers ( ar, دولة الجزائر, translit=Dawlat al-Jaza'ir) was a state in North Africa lasting from 1516 to 1830, until it was conquered by the French. Situated between the regency of Tunis in the east, the Sultanate o ...

. He had installed his country house near the beaches of the suburb of Algiers. On the shores of Hussein Dey had failed in 1541 the ships of the fleet of Charles Quint. Located on the seafront, between the Jardin d’essai, Maison Carree Kouba. Hussein Dey had several counties in its periphery: Leveilley, Brossette, La Montagne, Bel Air, La Cressonnière, Panorama, Eucalyptus, Côte-Blanche, Côte-Rouge, and Lafarge.

Municipalities

The district is further divided into 4

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Hussein Dey Hussein Dey (real name Hüseyin bin Hüseyin; 1765 – 1838; ar, حسين داي) was the last Dey of the Deylik of Algiers. Early life He was born either in İzmir or Urla in the Ottoman Empire. He went to Istanbul and joined the Canoneers ...

* Kouba *

El Magharia El Magharia ( ar, بلدية المقارية) is a suburb of the city of Algiers in northern Algeria. Notable people

Suburbs of Algiers Communes of Algiers Province Algiers Province {{Algiers-geo-stub ...

* Belouzidad

Notable people

Known personalities from the area include: *

Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Gashtuli al-Jurjuri al-Azhari Abu Qabrayn (; died in 1793/1794), mostly known as Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine ( ar, سيدي محمد بو قبرين) was a Berber ash'ari alim'', founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order ...

, thelogian and Sufi *

Brahim Boushaki Brahim Boushaki ( ar, إبراهيم بن علي بوسحاقي ''Ibrahim ibn Ali al-Boushaki'') (1912 CE/1330 Hijri year, AH – 1997 CE/1418 Hijri year, AH), was an Algerian people, Algerian Scholar, Imam and Sufism, Sufi Sheikh (Sufism), She ...

, thelogian and Sufi *

Mohamed Aïchaoui Mohamed Aïchaoui (29 January 1921 - 1959) was an Algerian journalist and militant in the nationalist movement against French Algeria. Aïchaoui wrote the ''Declaration of 1 November 1954'', the National Liberation Front's first appeal to the A ...

, journalist, militant activist, politician *

Mohamed Arkab Mohamed Arkab (born 19 February 1966) is an Algerian politician who is serving as Minister of Energy since 22 February 2021. Biography Arkab was born in 1966 and is from the village of Aït Salah in the municipality of Ammal in the Boumerdès ...

, engineer, politician *

Mohamed Belouizdad Mohamed Belouizdad ( ar, محمد بلوزداد; 3 November 1924, in Algiers – 14 January 1952, in Paris), was an Algerian militant and chief "responsible" (manager) of Special Organisation (OS), the military branch of the Algerian People's ...

, militant activist, politician *

Mohamed Missouri Mohamed Missouri ( ar, محمد ميسوري; 7 December 1947 – 29 June 2015) was an Algerian amateur boxer and coach. Early life Missouri was born in 1947 in the village of Merchicha within the Col des Beni Aïcha region, in the east of t ...

, boxer and coach *

Hocine Yahi Hocine Yahi (born April 25, 1960 in El Madania, Algiers) is a retired Algerian international Association football, footballer who played at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. Club career At age 11, Yahi joined his hometown club of CR Belouizdad, where he ...

, football player

References

Districts of Algiers Province {{Algiers-geo-stub